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The British Museum has a money room. It houses all sorts of currency including coins, paper, stones, plastic, shells and rf-tags.   Also on display at the British Museum is an education project by Artist and designer Heidi Hindler, featuring a group of young people that re-imagined currency through undertaking a design process. The coins…

I cast some coins in pewter. This was the process: 1. making the mould 2. heating the pewter 3. filling the mould with pewter 5. coin

My initial idea for the “Design Education for Sustainable Futures” workshop: Macro(bigger picture): How does capitalism relate to sustainability? Exploring private ownership and profit based economies / profit before people and land. Meso (subject area): Are there alternatives? “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine…

The final day of “Design Education for Sustainable Futures” was spent participating in a “design charrette” A charrette is a collaborative design method, where one participant spends 10 minutes outlining an idea, and then the group collectively provide suggestions / ideas / insights for 20 minutes, writing them down on a large sheet of paper…

Reading week was spent in the (lonely lonesome) studio design studios learning about designing education for sustainable futures (well, it was not so lonely: we were a comfortable 14 participants, and it was an interesting course). We learned theory and ideas surrounding design activism and agency. There were various spectrum to get our heads around.…